This is a new opportunity for specialist children’s nurses across the UK to help improve the quality of care for children with serious long term conditions by undertaking their own practical research.

The charity has been creating new Roald Dahl specialist children’s nurse posts around the UK for more than twenty years. The Marvellous Nurse Inventing Room will go one step further and help nurses to act upon their ideas by helping them to lead on their own innovative and practical research.

The charity is working in partnership with The Burdett Trust for Nursing to provide twelve specialist children's nurses with a grant of £15,000 each. They will be able to try out an idea, put it into practice,and to communicate the learning far and wide. The Marvellous Nurse Inventing Room will focus upon helping children living with rare or undiagnosed illnesses to stay emotionally strong.

For more information about applying to the Marvellous Nurse Inventing Room, including timelines and criteria. The submission deadline for initial proposals is Monday 14 July 2014.